One hundred thousand coins, this is not a small amount of money.

Even if you can raise a black armored iron cavalry, the number of people will be at least 500.

So this number is very scary, but all the families present looked solemn. The scholar spoke first and said in a deep voice: "If there is really a secret recipe worth hundreds of thousands, our Cui family in Qinghe will never bargain with you. We will pay as much as you offer."

The other five companies followed suit, almost everyone had the same meaning, saying solemnly: "We are willing to pay for each of them instead of pieced together a thousand stalks like buying red bricks."

This is the first thing to agree to double the price of the red bricks. Whether it is true or false, it will be sold to Gu Tianya first.

The aristocratic family is not a fool, but on the contrary, they are very smart. If there is a secret recipe worth 100,000, they will definitely buy it without hesitation.

Because this sky-high secret recipe will definitely be beneficial.

There are six aristocratic families, each with 100,000 yuan. If the transaction is successful, Gu Tianya will get 600,000 yuan in one go.

He quarreled with Li Shimin and won three thousand war horses. The four small stoves in Gujia Village can make steel. After selling the secret recipe, he can raise an extremely elite black armored iron cavalry.

He knew that Zhaoning had been looking forward to this matter.

...

However, the aristocratic families present were all good at observing words and expressions. Zheng Guanyu was the first to speak and asked with a tentative voice: "Brother-in-law Gu, are you going to sell the secret recipe of the Iron Industry?"

He said without waiting for Gu Tianya to speak, and then he said, "I came here today. When I saw a stove standing behind the post station, I asked the postmen about the stove. They did not hide it from me, but instead took out a horizontal knife to show me. I was so greedy that I drooled. I dare to ask Brother Gu, is this the secret recipe you want to sell?"

The aristocratic family is very smart and looks at interests in advance. Sometimes they are cruel and ruthless, and sometimes they also foster family affection. Although Zheng Guanyu was born in the Zheng family of Xingyang, his sister was the Crown Princess Li Jiancheng, so he was the representative of him to negotiate with Gu Tianya for everyone present.

Unfortunately, before Gu Tianya could speak, he heard Li Shimin speak indifferently and said, "Iron Art, mine!"

He only said four words, but he said it very firmly, even with a hint of murderous aura, highlighting his determination to monopolize the iron industry.

But the aristocratic families present are not afraid.

Zheng Guanyu turned his head to look at Li Shimin, and before he could say that he called out his second brother in advance, then he smiled and said, "Second brother, you are General Tiance, who is responsible for the Tang army. Although your Tiance Mansion is strong, it is only the powerful military formation. If you talk about the way of business, hehehe..."

He didn't continue, but everyone understood the implicit meaning.

But Li Shimin suddenly smiled and said with a deep meaning: "Don't forget that the Li family was once a clan."

Zheng Guanyu was stunned.

Yes, the Li family used to be a clan.

And it is a very powerful clan.

But Li Shimin was behind his hands and slowly said: "There are also people from aristocratic families in the Tiance Mansion of the King. Although the Tiance Mansion is responsible for military affairs, it does not hinder our business, especially the iron industry. I am even more unlikely to let go. This thing is used as a tool, and the army is used as a weapon. It is like a sword with double blades, which can hurt people or oneself, so it cannot be in your hands, because this is the bottom line of the Tang Dynasty royal family."

All the aristocratic families present are smart people, how can you not hear what Li Shimin meant?

Iron must be controlled by the state.

Otherwise, if aristocratic families control the iron industry, they will inevitably ignore the country for the sake of profit. As long as someone gives money, they will dare to sell the things to any foreign tribe.

That's the enemy.

At this time, Gu Tianya finally spoke, without saying that he had smiled in advance, and said to everyone: "It's time to come to the evening and it's time to snow. Let's drink a cup of tea together. You are here to visit today. Tianya should entertain you. Don't stand here, let's try my tea together..."

He deliberately made the word "tea" very important.

Everyone was so smart that they moved their hearts in an instant. Zheng Guanyu blurted out first and said subconsciously: "Is it the tea brick suppression?"

After saying that, he shook his head again, overturned his guess and said, "No, no, the method of suppressing tea bricks has been available, so the secret recipe that Brother Gu wants to sell is definitely not tea."

But Gu Tianya laughed and said, "Then you are wrong. What I sell is tea."

He reached out and invited him forward, leading the way. Everyone looked at each other and followed curiously.

After a short while, when I arrived at the inn, the inn had already begun to take shape, with a yard on both sides. The yard on the left and the yard on the left was extremely large, with stable stone troughs built inside, and as for the yard on the right, there were rows of houses.

After watching, some people sighed and said, "Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. It covers so many military stations. It actually set up an inn to facilitate customers and merchants. It can be seen that Brother Gu has a lot of hills and valleys, which is far from the ordinary poor background..."

He stopped here and then said, "But this is exactly the reason we opposed at the beginning, and the setting of the station will seize the right of the aristocratic families."

Gu Tianya refused to comment, just smiled and said in a spectacular way: "There is no unchanging statement in the world, and the aristocratic families may not want to take charge of the local power in the future."

Everyone laughed and did not continue to argue. Today was to ease the stalemate, and both sides would not glar at each other because of their ideas.

Gu Tianya also stopped refuting and led everyone directly into the inn.

Only then did everyone realize that there were already people in the inn, but there were two charming women who were boiling water around a small stove.

Everyone knew two women, and their faces showed a hint of strangeness.

Only Zheng Guanyu's head shrank, as if he was a little terrified in habit, but it turned out that the two women were Xiao Qing Xiaorou, who used to beat him up with Zhaoning.

This caused the son of the Zheng family in Xingyang to have a shadow in his heart.

However, the others had no psychological shadow. Everyone's attention was completely attracted by something, which were some snow-white porcelain cups, and there was a small red pot next to it.

Suddenly, Gu Tianya smiled and walked over to pick up the kettle on the small stove, then opened the kettle, and brewed it elegantly. (Note: In order to prevent someone from saying that I have a word of water, I won’t write down the details about making tea.)

In an instant, a trace of fragrance suddenly appeared in the air, very soft and light. If you don’t pay attention carefully, you may even think it is an illusion.

But because everyone is concerned, it is impossible for them to notice this faint fragrance.

It was not until this time that I heard Gu Tianya speak with his own words: "Seven things to do when opening the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Since ancient times, tea has been made with tea, adding various seasonings, and drinking it is quite fragrant, but I think that cooking tea has lost its charm..."

He said, and then said: "At the end of spring last year, Hebei was not in contact with the green and yellow. Because I was too hungry, I went into the mountains to find something to fill my stomach. I found a wild tea tree that picked some tea and went home because my ancestors once left a secret recipe to make tea through the method of stir-frying. I wanted to sell it with the tea, but after thinking about it, I didn't dare to sell it."

Everyone understood the implicit meaning of his words.

If he had sold it at that time, he might have been a dead person now. Even if he had not been killed, he would have been arrested and beaten into a slave, responsible for frying tea.

The aristocratic families present knew this kind of ruthlessness. It was precisely because they knew it, so it was difficult to speak for a while.

Fortunately, Gu Tianya did not continue to say anything, but reached out to make an invitation and smiled and said, "Everyone, can you taste it?"

The six people from the aristocratic family had been looking forward to him. When they heard this, they hurriedly went up to pick up the teacup. Before they had tasted the teacup, they first looked at the teacup. Zheng Guanyu's eyes were shining and suddenly blurted out and asked, "How to cook this teacup together?"

Gu Tianya was slightly stunned, then laughed out loud, shook his head and said, "I run porcelain myself, and it will be a unique industry in the future. Even if the Tang Dynasty royal family wants to participate in the shares, I will not agree to their request."

He said, stopping, and said with a deep meaning: "This is what Zhaoning means, she wants to leave the property for the children to eat."

Everyone wanted to persist, but when they heard this, they stopped. Zheng Guanyu subconsciously glanced at Zhaoning and smiled awkwardly: "Since it is Sister Xiuning who wants to keep a property, we will naturally not covet this teacup again."

After saying this, he seemed quite depressed, but after he took a sip of tea, a strong surprise suddenly burst out on his face.

He suddenly looked at Gu Tianya, his eyes full of anxiousness, and he was just saying that we, Zheng, Xingyang, want to buy it.

All the others were like this, and even Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin showed signs of intent on their faces.

Gu Tianya suddenly smiled and directly said the answer everyone wanted, saying: "The tea industry can be promoted extensively. In order to make money, you must plant tea trees in large quantities. Tea leaves are not only the needs of the Han people. This will hire many people and bring benefits to them. It is precisely because the people can benefit that I am willing to sell the secret recipe..."

This is to talk to everyone about the meaning of adding more money.

Since it involves business, we have to bargain. Although everyone present was eager, they tried hard to find a statement.

For example, Zheng Guanyu said: "The reason why you are willing to sell secret recipes is mainly because of your lack of strength. If the tea industry wants to promote it extensively, it must be widely planted, but how many acres of land do you have? You can't afford tea with your ability..."

Gu Tianya did not avoid this matter and nodded directly to admit it.

The reason why he sold the secret recipe for tea was indeed to rely on the power of aristocratic families. Today, only aristocratic families can grow tea fields and gradually make the tea industry bigger and bigger.

Zheng Guanyu was immediately excited and said hurriedly: "So the price of 100,000 yuan is too expensive, and each of our companies only costs 10,000 yuan at most."

But Gu Tianya suddenly laughed and said with a deep meaning: "Tea is not just the demand in the Central Plains. The staple food of nomadic peoples in the north is meat. They really need to drink tea to resolve greasiness. But tea is not a national control, and even if sold to foreign races, it is not considered an enemy. Think about it, how much benefit is this..."

The most important thing is that this is a trade surplus.

Only the Central Plains can produce tea, and selling it to the grassland is dumping. If this continues, it can conquer the Turks by economic means alone.

Don’t your aristocratic family like to collude with grasslands?

I am about to use your power to engage in your allies.

The key is that you are happy to grow tea, thinking that you have gained a lot of benefits from me...

I am vengeful to revenge. Is it easy to make a profit for cheap?

You don’t allow me to be an official anymore, you only allow me to be a merchant. OK, I will be a merchant, but I am a merchant different from what you imagined. I will let you slowly understand what the power of economy is.

It’s a pity that when you understand, it’s too late to resist again.

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